IM: >>So you object to the way animals are killed, as if you are at the slaughterhouse to see how the animals are executed.<<

I have seen it. Now, it's no day at the beach, but it done as quickly as possible, if for no other than business reasons.

Please boycott the show. You'll sleep less guilty.

On my way to the Madrid airport in April, the taxi driver mentioned the upcoming bullfights and how popular they are.
When I said the bullfights had been banned in Barcelona, he replied :" they are not Spanish ".
He did mutter something about how people also get killed by people ...so..

There is bullfighting all the year, you just need to look up for dates.

The Feria de San Lucas in Jaen will take place from Oct. 8 to Oct. 18. I think you'll find it an interesting event.

"i"When I said the bullfights had been banned in Barcelona, he replied :" they are not Spanish ".
He did mutter something about how people also get killed by people ...so.."i"

And since when was "people killing people" socially acceptable? Bullfighting aficionados will come up with all sorts of absurdities to defend this savage activity, disguised as a "cultural tradition".

Equally absurd is the argument presented by IMDoneHere. How can anyone equate the humane slaughter of animals - in which the animal is rendered insensitive to pain and killed as quickly as possible- to a brutal activity in which the bull dies a slow and torturous death, is beyond me.

Nothing justifies needlesss suffering.

I always root for the bull to somehow gore the matador or picadors - but if animal torture appeals to your prurient interests it is a great show -

Catalunya/Barcelona is against bullfighting because Madrid wants it>

May be this was said tongue in cheek but Catalans are way more enlightened about animal abuse and torture - in line like in many ways with the rest of Europe about this.

bullfighting is a dying spectacle in Spain - no pun intended.

You know it's over when the bull vomits up tons of blood in the arena.

Equally absurd is the argument presented by IMDoneHere. How can anyone equate the humane slaughter of animals - in which the animal is rendered insensitive to pain and killed as quickly as possible- to a brutal activity in which the bull dies a slow and torturous death, is beyond me.
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It is like being against capitol punishment when the electric chair is used but not for lethal injection. The end is the same.

When the activity suits someone's need, like eating meat in some form or another, it is acceptable and justified.

Rimwall,

I am not sure what you didn't know about bullfighting before you asked your question, but there really is no mystery that it painfully executes animals, in an extended way, for entertainment. Hope you will turn your back on this and join those arguing for an end to it.

It is like being against capitol punishment when the electric chair is used but not for lethal injection. The end is the same.

When the activity suits someone's need, like eating meat in some form or another, it is acceptable and justified.>

Unadluterated B.S.

To compare the killing of animals in a presumably humane way to torturing the animal for minutes by sticking picks in their backs to tanatalize it plus the brutal training that goes into producing a fighting bull is just yes Bull Tweed.

Now animals for human consumption should be slaughtered as humanely as possible and now are not but that is another argument.

Same as ISIS executing those nine teen-age boys by tying them to stakes and slicing them in half in public with a chain saw is way way more whatever than executing someone with an injection that puts them to sleep.

Yes they are the same thing in the end but so so different in how they are carried out.

Talk about nonsense reasoning - IMD takes the cake!

In an ideal world, everyone would be a vegetarian. But just because people consume meat, doesn't mean you can throw donkeys off a building or microwave your cat for fun. In some poor countries with, a meat-based diet is the only option.

Someone found the activity the need to rebuild a country.
To do so he decided to kill the ones responsible for the state of his country.
Some followers found it perfectly justifiable.

Not So Doable According People.